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Thanks for the link. That was for sale for ages about a year ago, so it’s changed hands and has been improved. Too short for me, I want another 10ft. I’m glad it has a few fans here but I find the accommodation cramped, I couldn’t live with the grey effect bathroom. I don’t like the glass box with the prop shaft in the floor of the back cabin. It looks better in the ANNB photos than it has in the past on the Duck. The current owners done loads with it because it really wasn’t very sorted inside last time out in the market. It’ll be great for someone, nice price, just not for me! By the way, I’d be thrilled with a Gardner 2LW RN DM2, Lister JP2…..etc

You’ve just described exactly what I’m looking for….add portholes…In fact make it a Kelvin in the engine room…

Ok good, that’s the way to go then…no welding…bolt them on. 😁

Can you have both sets of anodes fitted all the time? If your magnesium were welded on and then you bolted aluminium ones on when needed? I don’t have a boat of my own yet…possibly this autumn…I’m looking for 62ft minimum with a vintage engine and portholes. 70k budget.

Right, something else to factor in then…

Yes I was wondering about the salty water…the aluminium anodes, so do they have to be swapped out after you leave or they as effective as magnesium ones on the regular canal system?

Anyone here given Salthouse Dock a go? I’m thinking the winter mooring when they lock you in from October 31 to March 31. It would suit me. Yes I know it’s ££££’s but I have the option of earning being in the city and then departing for a nomadic lifestyle once the money is in the bank and they open the Stanley Dock flight….

What’s the max size for those?

This was a very helpful post!👍 Shall be looking further at this myself.

Yes, same…(I think I still have those old copies in my dads loft)….I recall he told me he had narrowboat moored at the back of St.Pancras.

I’m pretty sure John Polley was from East Ham…just sticks in my mind for some reason. Someone here is going to know if I’ve remembered that correctly…the team at Cow Roast didn’t know who he was….I was living in Stoke Newington at the time and he seemed sort of close to me….

Can’t remember, but I did meet the owner…he came down the morning they lifted the boat out. He was happy to let me power wash it ready for Mr Polley to see the next day. There couldn’t have been two for sale…? They were a bit unusual…

Yeah it was ‘94….and it was a Waltons boat built in the 60’s…..could it be….it must have been…the same boat?? It was at Cow Roast when I got to it….autumn. All the pins at the bottom were exposed. The boat yard just said bang ‘em in again!! It sat much higher than everything else, not so pretty but I only had mid 80’s springer style hire boat experience on the Avon ring to compare with…and frankly it was the allure of the canal rather than the boat.

I had a wooden boat surveyed 30 years ago. Put that one down to youth. Over the years I have shuddered at my naivety. Luckily for me the surveyor was a lovely man called John Polley. He talked sense into 24 year old me very quickly. Without even entering the boat he pointed out how regarding the bottom it was the beginning of the end. I think it must be one of the briefest of boat surveys and we agreed I could just pay him for the drive out to Tring from East London. Narrow escape part 1. I still feel boat ownership is my destiny.

Sobering. I imagined the bottoms of these craft to have had more heft. Eight millimetres over eighty eight years? On another tac I see that similar boat Kenelm (Epsom) sold very promptly, wasn’t it advertised in January? I think I came across another facebook advertisement for it from 2022 for a previous sale.

I’ve been browsing the photos of Greenlaw. Very appealing. Assuming it’s been fully ‘done’ and evidence here implies it has and The Warwickshire Flyboat Co seem to be the firm that did it ….I’m thinking that a boat designed originally to withstand tons of coal or aggregate tipped inside its bare hull has to be massively over engineered when then restored and converted to a covered leisure vessel. Just looking at the bulkheads in the engine room and all the riveting…I’m hugely reassured. Doesn’t reassuringly expensive apply here either? The off putting thing is that nobody has bought it in nearly a whole year…? Too expensive then? Too niche?

The article suggests the canal will close, not enough water…and too expensive to supply.

Hmm, well it seems it’s fate is to be forgotten: Beautiful Welsh canal used by thousands of people faces being left to run dry https://uk.news.yahoo.com/beautiful-welsh-canal-used-thousands-150322939.htm

According to the BBC they took the pictures off the walls. That’s very easily identifiable I would have thought.

It strikes me that the perpetrator(s) knew they’d get away with this.

I hope this isn’t the start of some horrible new trend…I’ve just read the update on the BBC…the boat was stripped of anything valuable. It seems to have been stolen, methodically stripped and left to sink. Whoever did this was very organised…

And exponential growth ten or so years to the future….? It’s not surprising at this juncture a solution needs to be found. I wonder if the DEFRA money hadn’t been slashed how much further into the future would this matter have been put under scrutiny? As Magnetman says the canals aren’t a housing solution and C&RT isn’t a housing charity. I hope to God that we don’t loose genuine CCers. I am hoping to be one in the future. I have read most of this thread with interest, almost like a ‘crystal ball’ but alas it reveals nothing of the murky future.

One hundred boats thirty years ago, how many now?